The key point to understand is that FLAC is LOSSLESS. There is no loss of anything (including sound quality).
Compressing a file to FLAC then uncompressing back to WAV will end up with the exact same file as when you started. It works just like .Zip for data except that you can actually use a FLAC to listen to. Taking this idea one step further, you can open up a WAV and the FLAC of the same track in a spectrum analyzer and they will look IDENTICAL. To prove this to yourself, you can invert one and add them both together, this will end up with absolutely nothing... showing you that they are indeed identical. The bonuses of FLAC are tags and about 50% filesize savings. In short, FLAC rocks and there is no reason not to use it from an audio quality perspective. The only real downsides are that some players don't support it and that it takes time to compress to FLAC. ss. -- street_samurai _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
